Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it!. I really, really did not want to do another member's news rant but I can't keep it bottled in anymore. For the last 3 weeks I have seen people abuse the hell out member's news with so much crap. Before I start this rant, I want you to know that I have nothing against Danny because I respect him but I do have a problem with the people who abuse member's news.
A while back in a comment I left in one of Jayman's post, I said that nowadays many people are joining Dannychoo.com just to promote their own blog. I'm seeing all of these new people join and then the start leaving comments like crazy just so they can get the ability to make member's news posts. Hell, the other day I saw some guy make a member's news post and then at the end of the post he had "visit my blog at ***** and my Youtube page at *****" even thou the links to his blog had nothing to do with the post. However, I saw some justice happen before my eyes, Danny left a comment telling the guy to remove those links or he will delete the post. That made my day. The only time it is ok to leave a link of your blog in a member's news post is if it's related to the post.
I have seen people make post there and using someone else work and saying it's their own. When I see people not give credit where credit is due, it angers me. There is one person on that site who has used pictures from Super Rat's figure photo shoots and said it is his own, not once but twice. On the first time, I told the guy to give credit to Super Rat for the pictures and Dancing Queen even provided a link to the photo shoot but this jerk ignored it. I consider people like that to be scum of the earth. 
The last thing that pisses me off are the morons who post about stupid sh*t. About a 2 weeks ago, I saw someone make a post on how he bought a 1 dollar mechanical pencil, yeah this is crap that is flooding DC member's news. The sad thing is that people will continue to abuse member's news. So, what is your opinion on the debacle known as member's news?
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21 comments:
Who is this Danny Choo you speak of?
@Panther: lol, you still have a grudge against the DC community?
Yeah, I specially hate people who take other people's works, and then ignore everyone, still saying they own it...
Otakudan, on a completely different matter, where do you buy your figures?
Um is this related to the day by day image(ex. maid friday)
LOL, this post never gets old.
Copying and pasting a link takes less than 2 secs but for others, it takes a lifetime to do it. >_<
Somehow it is kinda annoying..when you respond to something to go off tangent.
A slight confession, I actually joined up with Danny Choo to see about more exposure, but there are occasions that I do look at the site, and marvel at the community. However since the site is so big, I rather take the safer route of lurking.
It gets kinda scary with that much comments there. Plus as a commenter, there are occasions where I wish the writer of the blog posts respond to comments, usually by the time I think of something to say, there are usuallly too many comments, so I took this approach to a while ago to comment on some posts.
http://animemiz.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/some-thoughts-on-brad-rices-posts-on-danny-choo-as-guest-editor-warning-on-random-thoughts/
Well, as with any popular site, there will always be a ton of trolls and spammers, nothing you can do about them really. If you're lucky, eventually they get bored and go away. ^_^
i can't agree with you more, the member news used to be great and had interesting posts daily, now i don't even bother to look at member news since they tend to be A.) either old news B.) something terribly lame C.) something stupid that people post just to get comments like "zomg i found this picture online and it's so cool!" or "panty shot friday!"
i've always enjoyed the site and i have to say i agree with why he closed the member news to new visitors unless you click for it to show them...
Do you guys understand that there's also KIDS who uses the member news ? It's like asking a 12 year old to be as smart as a 18...
You have no respect otaku dan, and you're insulting people that you don't know ! well, it's easy behind your screen, ne ? You should mail Danny and ask him if you can be the boss of DC.com, maybe you'll stop crying here ...
DC's member news is such a double edged sword. Most of the time it's a great way for Danny's community to visit each other's stuff. On the other hand, some people just show no judgment and poison the well to a point where it turns me off Danny's site, which really isn't fair, but I can't help the feeling a lot of people just comment to get their link up there. I still read his posts, just not so much on the participation. I'll take the good and ignore the bad is all I'm saying.
And thanks to you and Dancing Queen for calling out a faker for me.
The hide widget option is there for folks like you Dan. No body is forcing you to read (there could be but I dont know ^^;)
I've also give you the RSS feed for members.
Who decides whats crap and whats good - you? Lemme know if you want admin powers.
If I see blatant "VISIT MY BLOG!" then I warn the member. Then they dissapear.
If I see "Please see my blog howagirlfigures.com for more pictures" then thats great as I want to help members sites grow - they deserve it - but some folks see that as blatant promoting.
Should I make it so that when you log in you cant see the member news at all?
Hey Otakudan, I think DC is a nice and always growing community overall, and Danny is doing his best, but he probably cannot please everyone. If you really do not like the news items so much, maybe you could hide it forever?
I think it's really cool that it's actually an option for people who prefer not to read news items from others. But I find also I do encounter some gems here and there from News from others as well.
I don't want to sound rude here but if you really respect Danny maybe it would be nice to actually write him personally than to post rants from your blog ^^;, put yourself in his shoes, would you like someone who frequent your site to rant about how you blog? Thanks for reading ^^;
At least you didn't finish this post with "Duscuss".
When I started my blog I figured I'd attract visitors by getting listed on Danny's site, but I decided against it for many of the reasons you've put up here and on your two other posts. Maybe I'm showing my age and antisocial tendencies by admitting that I don't care for the social networking phenomenon. I like Danny's site and I visit it often, but I think it's also odd how every figure site has a Dannychoo.com feed on it, almost as if it's a Danny stamp of approval. I'm trying to stay away from that sort of homogeneity, even if it means less traffic.
Took me a while to realise that the first pic is Shonoa from Order of Ecclesia.
As for the member news, Danny is right - you can choose to ignore them if you don't like them. There are other interesting news dotted around the blogosphere or other places so you don't have to go to them. Besides, while there are perhaps things they you or many other people do not find interesting, it shouldn't make a direct impact on you (i.e. they're not flaming you etc), and you don't have to care about them.
"At least you didn't finish this post with "Duscuss"."
This is the best and most true comment. I applaud you.
I agree with what you're saying.
I don't even read the member news. It's not worth reading unless it is in something like otaku.fm!
calm down, sir. I know how you feel with those shit that still floating around DC.
@O-Dan-man & DC-man: Hey, this is the first time I've heard of a "hide widget" option. Can't seem to find it. Where is it? And how do I use it? Maybe this is finally the feature I'm looking for... ^_^
Haven't been to DChoo lately cause it's blocked from work and my home life got suuuuper busy!
it boils down to self discipline. if one wants to promote one's blog, there's always otaku.fm and may other aggregators.
at the end of the day, if one's blog content is good, people will visit and read it. if one's content is lacking, no matter how one hard sell it, it's no use.
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